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Some pretty raw power there, excellent song!

That looks good with the depth measurements for bulb planting too.
I'll stand by for your report.

Strictly walking it through of course! 😁

AC⚡DC! Got 4 front standing for the Sunday at Wembley and 2 ordinary arena standing for the second Munich date.
Can't wait!

After 3 years in my hands (and seemingly 10 years on the roads) , I'm still commuting on this daily and apart from skidding though a few rear tyres, it's been faultless. Such a rad bike.
Not great on the neck though with the large ammount of drop but thats a small price to pay :)

We live in a 1930s mid terraced place with suspended wooden timber floors downstairs. There's no insulation under the floor at the moment and would like to get some under there to warm the downstairs up a bit. What do I need to consider? Assume there'd be no need to notify building control?

A small ammount of silicone is all that's left to do in our kitchen. We're in SE London too. Did you ever find a mastic man?

How's the standard of their work? Improved since the brick incident?

Our Euphorbia seems to be turning into a monster and is in flower very early.

Up the wall pretty quickly, nice work!
Loved the sign that said "Welcome to the Chungle"

With the kitchen pretty much complete and the memory of the fatigue that goes along with building works fading, we're about to start a small refresh of the tiny toilet room.
I like a seperate toilet and bathroom so won't be knocking it through to the bathroom.
Idea is to get a Thomas Crapper Viceroy toilet, get the original picture rail remanufactured so I can hang a calander in there, from a piece scavenged from a neighbour and get that up, get some proper skirting board in there, get it skimmed and then wallpapered with something trendy.
Where's a decent place to shop for modern wallpaper designs? Pic of the gopping current painted textured wallpaper attached.

A rare WFH day. Lovely to see some Crocus' and the Hellebores out!

What's the rest of the standard of their work like? Any other red flags? Looks pretty shit tbh.

It's a stool for the high cupboards indeed.
From pluck.
Step Stool - Pluck Kitchens https://www.pluck.co.uk/product/step-stool/

Wonderful, thanks both!

The fence on the neighbours side is ripping itself to bits in the wind. Does anyone know what the metal bits are called?

Not too far away from having the kitchen finished now. Seems like getting the last little bits finished up has taken an age. The builder went back to Czechia in early Sept and has now returned and put in a day before Christmas. Got the hit and miss vent up, ceiling speaker in, replaced a rotton bit of timber round the bottom of the door and fitted the reclaimed architrave. I got the reclaimed architrave out of a skip in the street and then had it stripped at PJ Pine in Crystal Palace and reckon it looks spot on.
Room just needs the paint finishing, the tiling behind the benches done and the the sockets fitted. Have purchased a Denon AV reviver off Ebay to go under the stairs to be used in conjunction with a chromecast and home mini speaker and the ceiling speaker.
Absolutely love induction cooking and the heated floor.

Thinking I'd like to attend a hifi show to look at some of the lovely stuff on offer in 2024. Not been to one before. Whats the best one to go to that's either in London or not far?

Couple of healthy looking Euphorbias there. A great looking garden. How invasive is your bamboo? 😂

So, the latest on the neighbours overheight extension, it seems to have come down in height quite quickly with some Lewisham planning department involvement 🤣
I'm still measuring it as too tall so they may need to revise the height again.
They've also had a visit from environmental health after filling our house with brick dust for 4 straight days. Don't think they give a shit.
Employ professionals people and make sure you properly engage with your neighbours.

Purchase one locally then chop it up into small bits for the compost and the trunk into smaller sections to rot away gracefully at New Years. Plastic is the devil.

Perfect, thanks for confirming.
My partner is much better at communicating formally with these things so is busting out a well written factual letter to the council planners now.

After some advice please.
Our neighbours seem to have engaged some rogue builders that seem pretty woeful to gut the downstairs of their house, open up the rooms with some steels, and refit the kitchen in their extension. They were available at a weeks notice which immediately set alarm bells ringing. No party wall agreement as it previously seems to be within the permitted development limits and ever so slightly on their side and seems that they've engaged with building control.
Somewhere along the way, the previously 3m structure seems to have increased to 3. 4m and blocking light into our house.
Can see the height difference in the attached. I had a word with them yesterday and they've agreed to stop work until it's resolved which also rings alarm bells as confident professional people would be confident in what they're doing and crack on.
Whilst it's no care to me, they seem to be using all reclaimed materials that look to be scavenged from a skip.
What do I do, get photos and submit to planning enforcement at Lewisham Council? Engage my own surveyor?

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In the lounge!